Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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The Christian must be consumed by the conviction of the infinite beauty of holiness and the infinite damnability of sin.
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He that can work is born to be king of something.
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Genuine Work alone, what thou workest faithfully, that is eternal, as the Almighty Founder and World-Builder himself.
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Authors are the vanguard in the march of mind, the intellectual backwoodsmen, reclaiming from the idle wilderness new territories for the thought and activity of their happier brethren.
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And man's little Life has Duties that are great, that are alone great, and go up to Heaven and down to Hell.
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The meaning of song goes deep. Who in logical words can explain the effect music has on us? A kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads us to the edge of the infinite, and lets us for a moment gaze into that!
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To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.
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Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance. It is character which builds an existence out of circumstance. From the same materials one man builds palaces, another hovels; one warehouses, another villas; bricks and mortar are mortar and bricks until the architect can make them something else.
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How great a Possibility, how small a realized Result.
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Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don't happen at all.
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Life is a series of lessons that have to be understood.
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A mind that has seen, and suffered, and done, speaks to us of what it has tried and conquered.
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Once turn to practice, error and truth will no longer consort together.
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They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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I call that Book of Job, apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with pen.
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Might and right do differ frightfully from hour to hour, but then centuries to try it in, they are found to be identical.
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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul.
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O thou who art able to write a Book, which once in the two centuries or oftener there is a man gifted to do, envy not him whom they name City-builder, and inexpressibly pity him whom they name Conqueror or City-burner! Thou too art a Conqueror and Victor; but of the true sort, namely over the Devil: thou too hast built what will outlast all marble and metal, and be a wonder-bringing City of the Mind, a Temple and Seminary and Prophetic Mount, whereto all kindreds of the Earth will pilgrim.
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He who would write heroic poems should make his whole life a heroic poem.
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Habit and imitation--there is nothing more perennial in us than these two. They are the source of all working, and all apprenticeship, of all practice, and all learning, in this world.
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Worship is transcendent wonder.
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It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.
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To each is given a certain inward talent, a certain outward environment or fortune; to each by wisest combination of these two, a certain maximum capacity.